What is considered non residental?

ZJhilltop

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California
I was reading up on squatting laws and there was something that I was having trouble understanding. It say's that you can be imprisoned or fined for squatting in a residential property. So what exactly is considered non residental are vacant properties considered non residental.
 
Doesn't matter. You can be arrested and prosecuted for squatting in any kind of property that isn't your own.

It's called trespassing.

California Penal Code Section 602 Except as provided in subdivisions (u), (v), and (x), and Section 602.8, every person who willfully commits a trespass by any of the following acts is guilty of a misdemeanor:
(m) Entering and occupying real property or structures of any kind without the consent of the owner, the owner's agent, or the person in lawful possession.

http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/f...division=&title=14.&part=1.&chapter=&article=
 
It say's that you can be imprisoned or fined for squatting in a residential property.

What is "it"? Is "it" a section of the Penal Code? If so, which section? If not, please cite what you're talking about.

You understand that "squatting" means trespassing, right?

So what exactly is considered non residental are vacant properties considered non residental.

"Residential" describes property of the sort where humans might live. It is contrasted with "commercial," "industrial," "agricultural," etc. "Vacant" simply means property that isn't currently occupied.
 
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